We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism-collectivism …. Collectivism leads to efficiency gains relative to individualism, but these gains are static, unlike the dynamic effect of … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …

We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism-collectivism …. Collectivism leads to efficiency gains relative to individualism, but these gains are static, unlike the dynamic effect of … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …

We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism-collectivism …. Collectivism leads to efficiency gains relative to individualism, but these gains are static, unlike the dynamic effect of … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …

We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism-collectivism …. Collectivism leads to efficiency gains relative to individualism, but these gains are static, unlike the dynamic effect of … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …

We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism-collectivism …. Collectivism leads to efficiency gains relative to individualism, but these gains are static, unlike the dynamic effect of … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …

This paper reviews recent economics literature on culture, with an emphasis on its relation to the field of long …-run growth and development. It examines the key issues debated in the new cultural economics: causal effects of culture on … economic outcomes, the origins and social costs of culture, as well as cultural transmission, persistence, and change. Some of …